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Mac OS X is an operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10. Mac OS X is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep OSes developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.

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I've got a problem that's driving me nuts! I'm at my girlfriend's house here ...

Is there a way to have one command run differently, depending on the manner in which one is logged into the session launching it?
Basically, we have a command that when run, launches vim to display ...

I maintain the computers and write software to control experiments and collect data at the research lab where I work. I run a subversion server (installed with brew) on the OS X machine at my desk. ...

Have a fresh OS X installation here (new VM), and when trying to install Homebrew I just get an SSL error.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/': Unknown SSL protocol error ...

I have a windows desktop PC (windows 10 insider preview, if it matters)
I also have a mac on which i've enabled SMB file sharing. I created a test folder, i accessed said folder on my PC, and mounted ...

On my Mac OS X (10.6.8) I'd like to make all requests for 111.111.111.111 go to 222.222.222.222 for all ports. To test this, I have a webserver at 222.222.222.222:80 which will respond with a page for ...

tl;dr - My ZFS RAIDZ2 array reads at 7.5+ GB/s and writes at 2.0+ GB/s when I specify a bs=128K or greater with dd. OS X is assuming 1K (as per stat -f %k .) and all my is ~300MB/s; dd gives the same ...

As my small company starts to realise the need to manage things more efficiently, I've been working on centralising management of our OS X workstations. Our overall environment consists of Linux and ...

I am on Mac OS X. I run the latest version (as of June 2015) of Vagrant, Docker, Virtualbox, and rabbitmq.
I have the following Vagrantfile, and it all starts up well and rabbitmq also starts up well ...

I have a MacBook using the Cisco client and it works fine except when I use the special Mac/iPad ability to tether over the iPad data connection.
For those that are unfamiliar with this, the Mac and ...

We have a Samba share on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. Per-machine logging is switched on via log.%m. I understand from the Samba documentation that %m is the NetBIOS machine name for the client machine.
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I recently switched out a DNS server, to a more stable one, but now of my mac servers are giving me some trouble. When the network cable is in, I'm getting stuck at the login screen, even when trying ...

I am trying to deploy tinc 1.0.24 on my CentOS 7 server and tinc 1.0.25 on my Macbook Air. I currently have a server running on IP 37.157.195.48 and a Macbook Air client running behind NAT.
Tincd on ...

I have a small Java ServerSocket application that is running on port 4444. I wanted to see the process using that port in my OSX terminal, and my first thought was to do the following:
netstat -a | ...